A chara, - I have written to the chief executive of An Post today asking him to desist from putting messages on letters that I post. The messages I send are inside an envelope which I pay An Post to deliver. I have no wish to send any other message. I consider the letters that I send to be my property and I do not authorise An Post to put a message from a third party on my letters.
So from today onwards I will write on all my envelopes that I do not want a message put on them. - Is mise,
GWYN GRACE,
Cremore Avenue,
Dublin 11.
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Sir, - I e-mail this note to you just to celebrate my ability to participate in the diversity of correspondent technologies available to us today - and also to show Fianna Fáil how simple it is to refuse to become an otherwise unwitting participant in its latest and most mean-spirited attempt at an advertising campaign.
Even if Fianna Fáil is entitled to exploit this resource for its objectives, it does illustrate the extraordinary lack of sensibility in the general party politic in these desperate times. - Yours, etc.,
CONOR McMAHON,
Alden Drive,
Sutton,
Dublin 13.
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Sir, - I think it is entirely appropriate that Fianna Fáil is using An Post to advertise. Is it not "the brown envelope party"? - Yours, etc.,
EAMON TIGHE,
Cadogan Road,
Fairview,
Dublin 3.